I have Arch Linux (64-bit) and I installed 32-bit Windows 10 in VirtualBox. Everything seems to work fine—fullscreen, scaled, etc…—except for seamless mode. When I activate seamless mode, the virtual ...

I set meaningful names to new windows I create in gnu screen, but then when I 'cd' or open vim that name gets changed to 'pwd' for instance. Is there a way to prevent screen from changing the title? I ...

I am new in using sed command and I have an sql which contains "MONYY" and I want to change the "MONYY" in the file by replacing it with the current "MONYY" automatically.
I have used the following ...

I am trying to do an Octal Dump on a large binary file (roughly 50 GB) and it is taking much longer then it should. We are running this on a $7000 4-processor Thinkmate with 4 Core-Intel Xeons and 1 ...

Minix3 has a reincarnation server that can restart drivers if they crash or end up in a infinitive loop. It can even restart the disk driver by keeping a shadow copy of the same or an older version of ...

I want to install debian on my computer, and I already have Windows on it. Is there any way i can install Debian on a partition without removing what's in it or formatting? I can't get past the setup, ...

I run Arch, and I recently grabbed the 3.12 upgrade for GNOME. I've had F12 bound to terminator for a while, since I often have to summon new terminals.
Ever since the upgrade, using a hotkey for a ...

I understand that it "looks like" Linux by giving me forward slashes and providing a directory structure similar to Linux. I also know that a lot of apps have been ported to Cygwin, but if the source ...

I am running stock Debian Jessie and I would like to burn a DVD with xfburn. Problem is that xfburn can't see my DVD drive. e.g. it does not show up under as /dev/scd0 or any other (as far as I can ...

I have several files in a folder, with names in the form: SOMETEXT1 number SOMETEXT2.mp3, or SOMETEXT number.mp3. I want to rename these to number SOMETEXT SOMETEXT2.mp3, or number SOMETEXT.mp3. Using ...

I have two volumes, one xfs, and another ntfs - ntfs was empty, and xfs had 10 subitems.
I needed to sync them.
I initially copied a few of the subitems by dragging them over in a gui fm. Several of ...

I had 32bit Ubuntu (with Xfce) and now I switch to 64bit Xubuntu and I'm not sure but I think that 32bit had better performace, but just a feeling. I want to know which one 32 or 64 will give better ...

Is there a way to enable proper mouse support in GNU screen so that I can switch the focus between split windows using my mouse?
In other words, I'm looking for a mouse-driven alternative to typing ...

Why does the output of some Linux programs go to neither STDOUT nor STDERR?
Actually, I want to know how to reliably capture all program output, no matter what 'stream' it uses. The problem I have is ...

I've been running Debian GNU/Linux for several years. Recently I gave Hurd a try by running Debian GNU/Hurd on a physical machine. It works fine, and I can get X running without problem.
The problem ...

I have a long running process in a (virtual) terminal that unfortunately was not started in a (gnu) screen session.
Is there a way to migrate it in a screen session? (obviously, without stopping it)
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 - and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 recently - Ubuntu installed the GRUB boot menu. When I first got Ubuntu, I changed the default OS to Windows 7. But now I ...

I am reading The Linux Command Line by William Shotts and I read somewhere in the book a part regarding permissions which says The operation may be a “+” indicating that a permission is to be added, a ...